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Definition of Real

Real

  1. A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
  2. Royal; regal; kingly.
  3. Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
  4. True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
  5. Relating to things, not to persons.
  6. Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
  7. Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
  8. A realist.

Real Quotations

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Jim Morrison

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
Calvin Coolidge

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
LaToya Jackson
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Real Translations

real in Afrikaans is effektief
real in Danish is virkelig
real in Dutch is daadwerkelijk, werkelijk, effectief
real in Finnish is todellinen
real in Italian is reale, veramente, vero
real in Latin is vere, verus
real in Spanish is castizo, de veras, real, efectivamente

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